Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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340 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART IT § 6. Ture HigH COMMISSIONERS AND AGENTS-GENERAL A curious and now important part of the Dominion Government consists in their representation in London. The Agents-General had in the main a business origin : the Crown Colonies no less than the other Colonies used to keep resident agents in London, often, of course, only slightly connected with the Colony, to transact all manner of business for them. Oradually the position of these ministers became more political and less commercial, and men of higher status were appointed to the posts. One of the foremost in pressing this question of status was Sir J. Vogel, Agent-General for New Zealand, who wrote an amusingly solemn dispatch in February 12, 1879,! to the New Zealand Government, setting out that the term Agent-General was apt to lead to misunder- standings : that an Agent-General for Victoria had found that when he ordered the term to be inscribed on some blinds the person entrusted with the duty turned it into General Agent, and the truth was that the agency was regarded as a general agency of a most enlarged description of a commercial character. He pressed for the recognition of the term minister resident, and that they should have a defined precedence and status, and be in all respects like ambassadors, subject to the fact that the Colonies were parts of the Empire. It was many years until New Zealand changed the style of her representative, not until 1905, when the term High Commissioner was adopted. But in the case of Canada the change had been made much earlier : on the occasion of the appointment of Sir Alexander Galt in 1879 they nominated him to act as minister resident in London, and the term High Commissioner was finally resolved upon as suitable? after consultation with the Imperial Government. At the same time no attempt was made to rank the High Commissioners among the official hierarchy or to place them with ambassadors, and the full recognition of their claims to be deemed representatives of the Dominions was hardly accorded until the arrival of Sir George Reid in . New Zealand Parl, Pap., 1879, Sess, 2, D. 3, * Parl. Pap., C. 2594,

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